The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-22
WHIT WANT.

THE following editorial which we
clip from the San Francisco Report |
puts some facts and reasons to be de |
Quoted in such good shape, that, as
they are equally applicable to Kansas,
we place them before our readers for
their edification:
The London Times has sent a CORE
spondent to America to write up the
country, and has begun to publish edi-
torials of most eulOgistic character.
from the usual methods of English
journalism will be is little difficult to
say. The London Times is considered
such an unQuestionable authority BY
the average Engiishman that he will be
apt to believe all that it may say COM
plfmentary of this country.
Only oncesbefore have editorials of
such character been published in the
English papers, and if the effect that
was produced at that time can be re-
garded as a precedent, it is safe to pre-
dict that there will be q decided in
crease of the better class of English
| immigrants to this country. When
Australia first came into prominence
| it was written up in the Times and in
other English papers, just as the United
| States is now being written up, and
II
was a great rush on the part of the
more enterprising Englishmen to reach
the land OF promise. 1t will be inter
| esting to note whether the present
course of the Times will lead TO sim
| liar result.
The Times in its editorial states that
free land is now almost a thing of the
past, and inferentially it shows that
the settler must be a man of some
means, though his possessions need moi
be large. The editorial, though com
plimentary, rather discourageS the EN-
igration of the poorer classes.
There is plenty of room in the United
States for the small capitalist. He Il
wanted here. The opposition OK
pressed toward the crowds of European
immigrants landing on our shores i
without exception working people VIII,
come into direct and ruinOus compiti
ton with the American workman. /
small capitaliSts-meR with none
: enough to be able to give employment
3 can be persuaded to cross the Allan
tic and make their homes in this coun
try, the labor competition would a
. once become less severe.
California Is more interested in thi
+ matter than any of the Eastern States
4 They are old and fully developed
California is only in the transitio
stage. Although there has been
}. great real estate boom for months, We
there are thousands of acres of chea
q land in the state waiting for settlers
o Who those settlers will be is a matte
of vital Importance to the state. MUG
4 of the recent prosperity of Californi
/ has been due to its settlement by me
V who were at once able to spend money
q Few of those who have come to til
state of late years have been destitute
The records of the State immigration a
ISOLATION show that nearly ever imm
y grant who has come to the state with
8 in the last three or four years with tn
n intention of settling have brought su.
ficient money with them to buy the
farming tools and supplies. They haN
II not tried to draw a living from til
l. country wholly, but have brought
more than they took out. If the Lol
don Times can persuade such person
to come to America, California will ce
'r tainly get its proportion, for ever
y where attention has been turned to I'll
western side of the continent.